Dr. Laura Kubzansky is Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Co-Director of the Healthy Aging Initiative, founding director of both the JPB Environmental Health Fellowship Program and the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a faculty affiliate of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. With over 400 publications, Dr. Kubzansky has published extensively on the role of psychological and social factors in health, wellbeing, and ageing, and whether these factors are pathways underlying social disparities in health. Moreover, she has served as principal or co-investigator on grants funded by the National Institutes of Health and other distinguished organizations. She is an elected fellow in multiple organizations and has served as an expert advisor to numerous foundations, health agencies, and the government.